001All right, it is 5:30 and uh we'll go ahead and call the uh Typton Community School Board work session to order uh for Tuesday, March 11th uh 2025. I think first up is Stephen, so I'm glad that he is ready. Awesome stuff to talk about. Lots of exciting stuff. Well, hi everybody. Hi. Uh, I think just about everybody I've had a chance to meet at some point in time. Beth, of course. Hi. My name is Stephen Gingrich, director of technology. It's good to meet you. Um, well, Dr. Glaze asked me to kind of talk a little bit about where we're at with onetoone technology right now and kind of where we're seeing things going from here. Um, kind of picking things up with next year. And of course the technology guy has a tech glitch.
002Cool. Okay. So, uh right now just as kind of an overview of where we're at, uh grades 9 through 12, uh last starting last year, we did uh Chromebooks at that level in place of MacBooks. Um so far that program um has been successful overall. Uh as far as breakages, things of that nature goes. Um it's been dramat dramatically less than what it was. Um and our our breakage cost been has been a lot lower too. Um I bragged on it a couple of times here recently. Uh as far as displays, which is probably the greatest uh breakage that we see. Um beginning of the school year, we were able to buy a whole crate of displays uh for the cost of one MacBook display replacement. Um and the display replacements are actually done in
003house u at the high school. So our our tech Kyle is usually who does that and he has um at the moment uh Rowan Maddox a student helper who uh comes alongside and and and helps with some of those screen replacements also. Um so then at the six through eight so that would be middle school level um we have an iPad with a keyboard two through five. Uh it's actually yeah two through five iPad with a keyboard and then um K through one is an iPad without a keyboard. That's kind of the way that everything is kind of layered in at the moment. Those K through1 iPads, as we'll see here in a little bit, are older than um the ones that have the keyboards. So the way this is kind of uh envisioned and
004laid out and designed was for the Chromebooks to have a four-year lifespan. Um by the time they get down to the end of those four years, the vast majority of them are not in awesome condition. Um just how they usually go. Usually get four years out of them and then um you don't have a full fleet left over. You'll have some that are are left in reasonable condition um that can be used as loaners going forward for the next group. Um and then iPads we usually slate about four or five years on a lifespan for those. Um that said, uh most of what uh we're encountering problems with at the moment are the grades through three three through eight. Um so what we're running into in particular a few different aspects, repairs, equipment reliability, and
005some manage manageability and compatibility issues. Um so the iPad repairs in particular, they're they're actually handled by Apple Care at the moment. So when we buy the app the iPads uh before the deployment, purchase them with Apple Care. uh there's a little bit of an extra cost that comes along with that and uh but that makes it so that when we have repairs instead of having to try to complete them inhouse, we send them to Apple. Um one of the reasons that we don't perform those repairs in house is that to get inside of an iPad, um and I don't know if you've ever seen anybody try to do like a phone screen replacement or anything of that nature. Most everything these days when it comes to that form factor, they're glued shut. um the
006screen is glued to the body and that makes it really difficult to get in. So you um most of the time what they would do is they would have a heat gun heat up the screen, remove the screen and that would allow you to get access to the internal systems. Problem is um components they're difficult to repair because of physical size and and space inside of the iPads. They're really tiny components and really tight confined spaces. Um that makes it not awesome. And then after even after you get repairs and everything done, you have to reattach that screen. Um, and reattaching the screens with the adhesive, the thing about that is that you have to have special equipment that heats up the surface of the of the iPad to a certain heat and the screen
007to a certain temperature, otherwise the screen replacement fails and then you have more problems, right? Um, so components are also difficult to acquire um for these due to a lot of Apple's restrictions. This has got better in recent years. Um, Apple has some DIY uh programs nowadays that where you can get batteries or you can get screens um OEM, so on and so forth, but it's one or two at a time. And there again, we still run into the repair issues. Equipment reliability, we've also had some troubles with that, too. So, um, grades three through eight, they really rely heavily on that, uh, use of a of a physical keyboard that right now is housed inside of a case that's attached to the iPad. Um, and they do that for completion of assignments, you know,
008reports, uh, research, things of that nature. Uh, and it's great for tactile typing, for learning how to touch type and and kind of beginning that process, um, at a little bit of a younger age. Problem is that the failure rates on these cases have been pretty high. Um, out of the entire deployment, I believe we did the math here just the other day, and we're at about 25% to 30% that we've had to replace uh, of just the cases. And it's not been um out of a matter of wear and tear or abuse of of the uh cases themselves. Um it's just been through failure rates. Now thankfully we've been able to uh work with Logitech to get them replaced. Uh but over time that's just what we run into with those some manageability issues.
009Um so the the the whole thing behind iPads is that they were consumer devices first. uh when they first came out, they weren't necessarily envisioned or designed for the enterprise. They were designed to for an individual to go purchase one and use it at home. Um however, as uh money always works, they decided to figure out ways to make it work inside of the enterprise environment. And that's where MDMs come along. Here at Typton, we use FileWave. Um it's just a third party software that we use to manage all the iPads. It allows us to place restrictions on them, allows us to place filtering on them, to be able to track locations, all of that kind of stuff that that helps with with making a a fleet of iPads as large as what we have
010manageable. Uh the thing about iPads is that they're Apple ecosystem first. So, um, if you have an iPhone or or anything of that nature, you're probably familiar with the occasional thing that you'll run into that, oh, I have to use the Apple app for this, right? Well, we run into the same thing with iPads. Um, here at Typton, of course, we use Google products for the vast majority of things, especially at that 3 through eight level. Um, Google Docs, Google Classroom, all that kind of stuff. Um, and while there are apps that can be downloaded and installed on the iPads to make those things work, they don't work as best as what they could if it were on different hardware. Um, Apple wants you to use their products, right? Um, so that leads to us
011having workarounds and different uh little quirks and things that you have to do in order to make Google Classroom or Google Docs uh work, for example. So um how do we what's the the proposed idea for working around all of this? Um a little bit of a restructuring. Um so the idea would be that that the grades three through eight uh we would be moving to Chromebooks. Um and that would allow for the keyboards to be built in that would allow for direct integration with Google apps and Google services. um instead of trying to to shoehorn uh Google apps and services onto an iPad, we're using first-party hardware, right? Um so it would still be the the same four-year lifespan of a Chromebook. Uh in particular, as you can see there from the kind of
012the listing, um the 3 through8 would be the Dell 3120s, which is um the model that came out last year of the same thing that we have at the high school, just newer, faster, so on and so forth. um four years. After the four years is up, we would be using uh what's left over as loaner devices just like it's set up at the high school. Um and then the iPads would be kept for grades K through two. Uh and that would be just to to best accommodate tech usage at those levels. It's a lot of educational games, activities, apps specifically that they use. Um a lot of that kind of stuff with tactile um touch, so on so forth. Um uh K through two, something like an iPad does work really well for those.
013They don't rely on Google Docs and and such as heavily as they do at that 3 through 8 plans for old iPads. Uh so the that K through one uh the 2020 and 2021 iPads, they'll be out of lease after this year. Um and so they will be sold for recycling. Uh we usually get some funds back for that and it helps pay for a new fleet, so on so forth. Um that how much that is. It varies depending on the age of the device and the kind of condition that it's in by the time it's all said and done. Um so we'll we'll see what comes of that. Uh staff that have older iPads, um which we do have several that are hanging around that have the those 2020 or 2021 models, um they
014would be upgraded to the 22 and 22 models. Uh and the remaining 2022 iPads that aren't being utilized for the K through2 level, they would serve the role that we currently use those 2020 and 2021 models for. So spares, loaners, u the occasional thing that comes up where we need to record a football game or we need to all kinds of different stuff like that. Random odds and ends that pop up from every now and again. Uh I think we have some that are running door system stuff at the moment. Lots of things like that. Uh so for we we've presented it before but just to give everybody a recap on what a Chromebook is, what it does, what it looks like. Uh the advantages of something like a Chromebook over uh an iPad. Uh
015kind of how I talked about with the iPads being designed for consumer use first and foremost. The Chromebook is the opposite of that. Um it was designed around a platform that's built with education in mind and built with the enterprise in mind. things are cloud-based instead of being housed directly on the device. The management is cloud-based instead of being something where we have to have a thirdparty software to integrate with that. Everything is handled on Google's end. Um, and it works really well. It's the management side of it. Um, the deployment side of it, all of that has been really fluid at the high school. Um, so the Chromebook being a Chrome OS being a Google product anyway is directly integrated with Google Docs, Google Drive, Slides, Google Classroom. So you don't have that those
016compatibility issues, the the workarounds that you have to do. Everything's integrated. Um, as far as the things that we use here at at TCSC, most of everything is web- based. Uh, it's that's a shift that's happened over the last handful of years. Um especially after 2020 with COVID and all of that um things being web- based has has been a huge push um and the vast majority of everything that we do here um especially at those three through eight three and higher web- based um and Chromebooks they're they're widely adopted in K12 onetoone as I mentioned we already use it at the high school but the good thing about that is that we're not alone there's a whole community of people out there that use them for their their onetoone devices with students Um, from
017a hardware perspective, um, instead of being glass and metal, they are, uh, rubberized edges. They're heavy duty plastic. They're, um, tested to to military specifications. Um, the school that I was at before I was here, we actually tested uh, Chromebooks. I was involved right before I left, I was involved in the deployment of Chromebooks at um, the high school level. And we had a Dell rep that came in and presented their devices to us, these education geared devices that were just going to be coming on the market. And uh one of the the funniest things I thought at least was the liquid resistant keyboard. He was pitching it to us and we're like, "Sure." Like it's not really liquid resistant, right? Like it there's no way. Well, we talked to the rep into letting us
018actually pour a whole cup of water like right there in our office onto the keyboard. And sure enough, like we picked it up, shook it off, dried it off, and it was fine. Uh, now that doesn't say that they're that they're waterproof or anything of that nature, but spills, things of that nature on the keyboard, it's it's liquid resistant. Um, and they're a lot more easily repaired. It's instead of screw instead of adhesives and glues and things of that nature, screws and bolts and, you know, fasteners and things of that nature that make it easier to get into the device, uh, a lot more room to work on them. And so, because we can do the repairs in house, that helps cut down on repair costs. So, you can kind of see the figures there
019in front of you. Um the for the 3120s in particular, which is the model, um the Dell discontinued the 3110s, uh so we wouldn't be able to get those for this deployment. However, because of them discontinuing that, uh we were able to negotiate them down, uh around $40 per unit, uh which is I was pretty happy with. I thought that that I was glad that they were able to to work with us on that. the licensing for those in order to facilitate the management of the devices, it's a $32 uh fee per device, but the advantage is that it's a one-time purchase. Um, instead of it being a recurring year-over-year cost per device, you only have to buy that license one time and then it's good for the lifetime of the device. Um, so at
020675 units, um, that would accommodate fluctuations in enrollment. It would allow us to be able to have spares on hand, so on and so forth. Um, and to kind of compare that with what we've done in the past, iPads with keyboards, uh, for the brand new model that that a week ago was just announced and is now on the market. Uh, I think it's in pre-order phase at the moment. $329 per unit. Um, and the older models, like the ones that we have now, are discontinued. Um, they also don't have headphone jacks. They're USBC. So there would in our case if we were to move to those in the future which we eventually will for the the lower grades um there will be charger replacements that will have to be involved and we'll have to
021figure out different strategy for headphone usage and things of that nature. Uh the file MDM license though for iPad uh is approximately $5 a year. It it fluctuates a little bit just like everything in the market does um but it's for several years it's been $5 per year per device. Um, but that is not a one-time purchase. That's per year. So, over the course of of the device, that cost of course is more than that. Um, and Apple Care hasn't the cost for that hasn't even been announced yet. Um, as far as what that looks like for the enterprise for this for this specific model. Um, so I don't have those numbers as far as what Apple Care cost would be, but it it would be definitely more than than what's here. Thoughts, questions? teachers
022would be staying at MacBooks. Yep. And um we are still continuing to roll out the uh the M1 MacBooks uh that are from the previous deployment. We're doing that a little bit at a time and getting those out and uh getting those slated and ready for recycle over this summer. Talking to Brooke, I mean, one of the reason why we did this because we're MacBooks, iPads. Um, so literally, you know, next year we'll still be losing a little bit of money. We're still paying off the one piece. After that, it's totally fun, which was really what we were trying to do in the first place is trying to create a program that was self sustaining that charging and the rental fee covered the cost of over the course of a year period. It just works
023out a lot better. on the financial we budget for it's typically around um the way it's set up in our budget I think it's like 50,000 holding so it's around it's approximately 5000 might and you said about talking about what we submit. And for a little bit of further clarification, those 2022 models, we would have two more school years, so 25 to 26 and 26 to 27 before we would have to purchase more devices. So those iPads have another couple of years to go. Any other questions on that one? If not, I'll move on to the fun, wild world of copers. Okay, so this one's been a long time coming. Uh been working with Rico for quite a while on uh a copier proposal. So to give you an idea of what our current fleet
024looks like, uh we have a an armada of of copers. Uh the high school has 11 copers by itself. Uh middle school houses seven, elementary is seven, corporation office is one. And then we have one at the transportation uh facility that is no longer on lease. Um it's out of maintenance, no longer on lease, but I'll talk a little bit more about that once we get here. So aging equipment, uh many of our current fleet are aging. Uh they're reaching the end of their lease. Some of them uh the vast majority are already off of off of the lease and have been paid off for several years. Um but the problem is that along with that age comes higher maintenance. Uh we've noticed a large uptrend in maintenance, uh service calls, so on and so
025forth, teacher frustration, staff frustrations. Uh we we've seen an uptick in that and of course along with that comes a downward trend of printing performance and accessibility and issues that come along with that. Um along with all of that, our technology climate has changed a lot since this current deployment was put in place. Um actually the current lease was kind of drawn up before my tenure uh here at Typton. Um so since then uh I kind of came in on the back end of it. Um however, since that time frame, uh we've launched one to one at the elementary school. We've done a a full wireless overhaul at the elementary school to accommodate that onetoone uh deployment. And out of all that comes a greater reliance on on digital tools and platforms and and usage
026of iPads so on and so forth and devices at the elementary school. It all all in all it makes us less reliant on print. Doesn't mean that we don't use it at all. Um but there's it just takes on a different role than what it used to. So um taking all of that into account um what was the goal of the project and all that was really was fleet optimization. Um the whole idea was to get an an increase in in uh operational efficiency and and to make it more financially viable. Um and through all this we had we were looking for a reduction in overall number of copers to help cut down on maintenance, help cut down on the lease cost per machine. Um a replacement of the the remaining copers that aren't being
027that are being replaced. um updating those newer machines and um adjusting what kind of equipment is being used in certain areas um to help with using the correct equipment for the appropriate capacities. We had some um in the current deployment where some of the copiers that were designed for only a handful of copies were being used as these giant workh horses for massive amounts of copies and that was leading to some of the maintenance issues and some of the repair problems. So adjusting that will would help with uh accommodating those goals. Um so as part of this we completed an on-site walkthrough with Rico. We actually had them come out on site. We walk through with them. We would go from this section of the building and figure out how many steps it is to
028a copier. Where's the nearest copier? Let's see how many steps it is. Um and so from all of that, we were able to kind of draw up a more optimized uh a more optimized layout. So the whole idea was, you know, how far away is this machine? How many copies were done on this machine? What does the maintenance history of this machine look like? All that kind of craziness. So, overview of changes. Uh so, at the high school, uh the main office, uh would be replaced with a color machine. Uh and that sort of comes out of some of these optimizations and stuff that we've made where it'll help to be able to accommodate having color uh color machines in in the offices. Uh the the TAA, the Typton Academy copier would be upgraded teachers
029lounge, media center. Uh the band room actually has one in it that they use to make uh paper copies of sheet music and things of that nature, but it's kind of oversized for what they use it for. Um how the print based on the print volume numbers, so on so forth. It's kind of oversized. Um so actually it would be a reduction of print volume in that area. However, on the flip side, the student success center uh would have a larger machine uh put in that place due to the print volume that would be in that location. Some of that also comes from the library upstairs being moved downstairs. We will see a larger influx in the student success center on the second floor. Um so there's uh five copiers there on the right hand
030side that would be removed from the high school as a result. Um some of those are actually currently in storage. They're not being used. Um, so two of the five at the middle school. Uh, the main office is currently a color copier. Uh, we would be keeping that in place. Uh, teachers lounge would be updated in the science area. Um, it gives us three copiers kind of down the the length of the middle school. And that would be uh the removal of four copiers. Two of which uh are currently in storage. One of which is sitting in the middle school tech office upstairs. might as well be in might as well be in in storage. Uh at the elementary school, uh again, the office would would have a color copier. Uh we'd be upgrading the
031teacher workroom that's on the west side. Uh the K1 pod, the 34 pod, those would be uh replaced and upgraded. And the teachers lounge would all be upgraded. And that would mean uh the removal of two copers. uh other other areas. The corporation office is currently color and we'd be replacing it with color. And the transportation copier that is no longer under lease um has a super super low print volume on it. Um the RICO reps actually recommended that we not replace it for now and uh when it breaks wait until it breaks down and replace it at that at that time because the print volume is so low on it and it's already out of lease that the the maintenance should be very low. That transportation copier could be. Yeah, it could be. Um
032the only thing is that the the copier that's out there um some of what they use it for my understanding at least what they used to use it for was to print large um format maps and things of that nature. The smaller copers don't print that large. Um so the the copier that's out there that's why it's that that particular copier. the uh so just kind of further details on this as far as the projected timeline for all of it. It would be something that we would complete over the summer. Um it would include the centralized management software that we use to uh allow for print uh copy reporting so on so forth. Uh the RICO they actually work with a third party company um to be able to recycle the copiers. They actually come
033and and the company would come and pick them up, haul them off for us because otherwise copiers are really difficult to get rid of. Nobody wants them. They're boat anchors. Um, but they would offer us $4,400. That's for the whole fleet, but um, they would offer us $4,400 to come and pick them up and haul them off for us. Um, all of the copers that would be replacing the machines that are here, they're actually color capable. They have a color the color function, the hardware built in, but they would be locked out in order to be compliant with the contract. Um, they would be locked out by RICO from those color functions. and that actually allowed for us to be able to cut down on some of the pricing um along the lines. So, it's
034a 60-month lease. Um and then after the duration of that lease, u we would have the option to purchase the copers for a dollar, which is more or less what we did with the previous deployment, which is how we've been out of lease for a handful of years with those. Um, and that also includes the same service packages and and things that we have now, old service that includes parts, labor, toner, staples. The only thing that that's kind of left off of that list there is paper, which just like it is now with the bill for paper. So, thoughts, concerns, questions? Can you tell me a little bit more about RICO? Like, could we look at different companies or are they kind of standard for education or Yeah. Yeah, it's it's pretty standard. Um, we've
035used Sharp in the past. Um, and they were okay. Um, Rico for one, uh, driver compatibility with the MacBooks is is really was really good for those. Um, we've also, you know, just out out of having a handful of years of experience with those, that's part of why we were able to get pricing on machines is having a history with with reg. So they are the ones that would service it. That is correct. All right. Thank you, Stephen. All right. Uh, next on our agenda is to review our board agenda for the 6:30 meeting. Um, We do have um uh the board policy first reading this evening. Batches one, two, and three were included in our in our packet. Um and so um I guess questions regarding that u we want to have uh discussion
036on that before um moving into the to the regular meeting. I had picked up a I've got a spreadsheet started on where I picked up trustee instead of school board. So I am I'm not done with that. So I have not done all my homework. I did not read all three batches yet. Uh but I do have a list started where a couple of those have sweeped through. So um but I did not have any questions. I did feel that the CCH u policies were much more succinct and easy for non school people to understand and kind of make sense of. So, but did anybody have any questions on that first read through or um Okay, that would be so nice. Yes. You see all the policies that combines wow and it's the duplication like
037the dduplication of the previous uh policies where we actually had conflicting polic Now it's down to, you know, a single thing is really, really good. So, but Beth, you were good on the first read through questions. Um, the only question I had was on the non-discrimination and anti-harassment. I didn't know what genetic information is referring to and why we would need that in there. What paragraph are? First paragraph. Um, A100 non-discrimination and anti-harassment. I found it. I'm not exactly sure why that's okay in there. I don't know why it would be and I'm sorry we missed it, but um I I'll ask Julie about it. Okay. Just to make sure there's not something somewhere in Yeah, you need to have that. I can't imagine. Great question. All right. Anybody else? Anything on that? Okay. Very
038good. Um, I think the next thing on our agenda is the advisory committees. Um, we may have a conflict for Monday the 17th. So, just stay tuned. We'll reschedu that one. Um, I was next week. I'm like, well, yeah, that's been the problem. We'll probably look at it first week in April. I'll send out an email on that committee to say that and then any other questions or comments on advisory committees that are coming up and everybody knows where they're supposed to be when. All right, Tammy, I'm looking at you. You can't go to all of them. You just got to go to the ones that are assigned to you. I did want to say our last one that was really great. I thought we got we covered a lot of topics and really a
039very good meeting and So one of the things that came out of that is looking at a platform to text. So a teacher will be able to text with their parent or student. It's all in a secure place. It's not there's always that that fear. We never ever ever want teachers to share their cell phone number and where they're texting back and forth. So looking at a couple of different vendors and just kind of getting some pricing on on those and I just think it's probably something that we should consider just to kind of up our security and everything else something to consider. So we may be able to bring something new in April or in May or something like that. What was the one parent square was the other? So, but anyway, they're just
040specifically apps. Um, and again, just a great way. We're always trying to strive for two way communication and that's one of our goals in our plan and this would give us a lot better and then protects with fura that kind of thing in case something gets out in the ether. Exactly. Okay. That's great. That is good. All right. That is advisory. uh committees. Uh next we move to comments and I believe we had one. Is she here? I don't see her. Is she here? Okay. I just wanted to address the strategic goal and the improved communication one. Um, the information given to board members in their packets prior to a meeting provides context and sharing that does improve transparency and public access to that information before discussing specific agenda items that require a vote. I
041know I've talked about this at other meetings about it, but since then I've kind of been digging into it and doing some research and I came across an article from WRTV back in June of 2023 that addressed this issue because in West Lafayette Community School Corporation 2022, a school board member actually filed a formal complaint alleging that um they had violated the Indiana Access Public Records Act um regarding this issue. And the entire purpose of the board packet is to provide members with a succinct finite set of documents to review and to consider during an open public meeting for approval. And once the packet is going to school board members, it becomes public information as was cited in the decision. The school board members concern when she filed this was that nobody knew what was
042going on if you were in the audience. And the school board packet has all the relevant documents associated with the agenda items. So the public should have access to the packets before and after the meeting. And her view was as a school board member, she was representing the community and she can't represent the community if the community doesn't know what's going on and can't provide input. So she pushed for transparency including the releasing of school board meeting packets before and after the meetings. And per the decision from the public access counselor in spring of 2023, the board agreed and they voted seven to zero to change their practice. And now the public can review the school board meeting packets before and after the meeting. And the public can see for themselves and see what the
043board was talking about and give input. And WRTV followed up with the Indiana School Board Association, but they don't track which school districts provide packets to the public or not, which begs the question, why isn't that information disseminated? Or maybe they people just don't want to do it. So, we can do it um per this decision. So, collectively, I know as a board, you guys get to decide rules and how you govern the meeting and things like that and it falls under your purview. And we used to supply supplemental documents um at the door prior to all the website creation so the public could have input to their elected officials who vote yay or nay. And we have a strategic goal to improve communication and this change would greatly assist towards this goal. And the
044best part there's no grant, no bond, and it's free. So why can't um our comm and separately on another issue I'm trying to understand why our communication regarding board meeting times and dates can't be communicated on the same texting platform that we use for reminders such as ordering yearbooks and the like. Thank you, Lord. Thank you very much. All right. Uh believe the next thing we have is adjournment. That's it. So um with no objection, we'll adjourn the meeting uh for 22 minutes and pick back up at 6:30. Thank you all. Okay. Good evening. We're going to call to order the uh March 11th Tipton Community School Corporation School Board meeting. Uh we're going to begin with the pledge of allegiance and the vision statement. I've asked Beth to lead that this evening. To the
045flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Future ready students who are prepared for a lifetime opportunity and success. All right. Thank you, Beth. Um, before we get to the Blue Future Awards, we do have uh the YOs's here to do a special performance of their awardwinning song. So, if they would like to come up first, um, that would be great. [Music] Dip your finger in the water. [Music] Dip your finger in the water. Finger finger in the water. Finger in the water. I love [Music] Finger finger water. Finger in the water. finger. Finger in the water. [Applause] So the first award is this group with their ensemble and obviously they serve that. You can see that
046from the performance they received a goal at the district for this performance and then they advanced to the state. So got a goal with distinction. So, first of all, [Applause] And so we also have uh some performers that went and uh competed and also need to get a gold um at the contest and then advance to stay and also receive gold with distinction. [Applause] And then I have a few more. Um, I'd like to call Warner to the front and talk about. So I wanted to present her with future just for kind of everything she does and has done for high school and how many years 28 years. She retired last year but then came back to us. Finished out her last group of German students and then has also moved into treasur and you
047know she could roll in and do that job well but she always does things another another step a step above. Um you know she's still organizing things like a share table at lunch. You know she sees a gap and it's like we have all these fruits and vegetables and things that are going to waste. What can I do to get that done? And you know when we were told like things had to be wrapped and done a certain way um you know we would say you know what it's just go but every day sits at her desk the app day so she's organized things like that um just you can ask about all theurricular materials you guys are as well to sit that kind of she's asking questions we're all doing everything that again another
048example of her going above and beyond to help at high school. I tricked her into being a junior class sponsor, which meant a new concession area, which meant not just stepping in and doing what most junior class do organizing. [Applause] I won't talk as long. She's not here and she really didn't even want me to give her one anyway. Um, but Kathy Summers, if you're not familiar with Kathy, she's our first year custodian. Um, I wanted to recognize her this month because we've been going through a lot of furniture, moving, construction stuff, and we've asked a lot of her. She's always there. She's always doing the things that we need her to. above and beyond what she has to do. Um Kathy's always available and doing really well for the high school. She told me
049not to even say her name, but I told her this is for my tal, but it was another good another good season for these guys. Um they had sectionals in Elwood. Um and Will Wolf who's not here, he finished first overall in 175 pound weight class. Joseph Clower finished second at the sectional and 126 pound weight class. And then Braden height finished fourth in the 215b weight class allowed them to advance to regional which is at height. Walford again first in his weight class. Joe finished fourth and Braden finished fourth which then allowed them to advance. So these guys again another tremendous season. They've advanced as individuals and Braden's only grad. [Applause] Yeah, go ahead. I think Andrew is gonna go. One parent is watching. I just want to make sure can hear me. Um,
050I would like to call up Dallas Capshaw, Calvin Condict, Cole Hussy, and Jack Roach. And if coach wants to come up as well, you're welcome to. We have Calvin Gallup and this is Cole. They are seniors on the football team. And we have Jack Roach who is a junior. And a few weeks ago, um, at the end of February, they were honored for their hard work on and off the field and received some awards that I would like to recognize. Um, I'm g start with Jack first and I'll tell you what the award is and kind of describe what it is because when I read I didn't have any idea what they meant and I think it's important to kind of let everyone know what they accomplished. Uh, so Jack being a junior he received
051um he was acknowledged as a junior all state. This award is given to the top junior football players in the state. These players are chosen based on their performance throughout the season and selected by the Indiana Football Coaches Association. So, Jack was actually chosen from um and nominated through um opposing team coaches, which is quite an honor to be to be recognized from opposing teams. So, congratulations, Jack. I'm sure we'll see you next year for getting an award as a [Applause] senior. Okay. Next, I'm going to talk about Dallas Capshaw, Cole Hussy, and Calvin Condict. They received the awards for being region five allstars. Um, Indiana is broken down into 10 regions. Regions one through five make up the north and regions six through 10 make up the south. Tipton is in region five. There
052are 33 schools in this region. Coaches from region five get together and nominate their top players. Then opposing coaches then vote and pick players in order to put together a football team with every position filled. Uh, Calvin was chosen as chosen as running back to represent um, region five. Cole was linebacker and Dallas was um nominated for defense at large. So what that means um being vote being voted as a region five all-star gives these three the opportunity to be chosen by members of the Indiana Football Coaches Association to play in the North South All-Star game. So good luck to them. Um that um that vote will be decided a later date. So we're we're excited and hope hope you get a chance for playing that game. And I have one more after that. [Applause]
053I also want to recognize um Dallas and Calvin. They also received um academic all state. In order to earn this award, students must maintain a 3.4 GPA, must play in at least 70% of the games, and be nominated by a coach. and they were nominated by coach Tol. So, if I if I mess up anything, Erin, please feel free to to correct me. But, we wanted to recognize the students um for their accomplishments on and off the field. And Jack, I'm sure you have a bright future next year as a senior and the other three heading off to college or um continuing education. Good luck. [Applause] I invite from middle school. Diane Mask, Professor Miller, and Mrs. Henry to come up and join me. Um, these three teachers are representing a group of eight teachers
054that I want to kind of chat about. Uh, five of them cannot be here either because of kids or because they're running plays or whatever it might be. Um, but, uh, they're going to go up and represent it. Uh, the reason that they are up here is because these are three of our fifth middle school acceleration. Um, and for those of you guys who don't know what acceleration periods are, um, in the 22 school uh school year, we noticed middle school that we had a large number of kids who for whatever reason, whether it co or just academic struggles just were really kind of further behind than a lot of their peers and we said we got to figure out something that we can um at the time intervene but we decided to shift over
055to accelerate which I think you all agree is better word um and uh what we realized is that we have this home room time in the morning. Let's go ahead and see if we can use something about that time to make it happen. Um we did that in 2223. Uh Math I suppose was part of that process through most of it although Miller joined us through that. Um what's been really cool about it is that every single year we look at py diagnostic at the end of uh you know the winter and in spring as we're starting in fall. That's kind of our benchmark and we say are our kids growing? Is this working? What do we need to do? How do we tweak it? Uh it's essentially another prep on top of the other
056preps that teachers have that they need to I don't know if I've ever heard a single complaint from anyone about it. It's just kind of everyone stepping up and saying, "What can we do to help the gaps that some of our students might have?" And actually, it's been such a positive thing that even our special education department said this year, "Hey, we have some kids who not just are, you know, maybe not quite at grade level, but kind of really far below grade level." And they just definitely said, "We meet those kids." Um, and I just like just want to share a couple of like data things that came from it. Almost every single grade is happening in sixth grade, seventh grade in both math and English almost every single grade showed double digit growth
057over the general education population showing that like these are really working really having a success there is one notable exception and that's Henry but that's only because all of her kids grew so dramatically that in fact so as successful as the general education stuff you were nervous there for a second but also uh Mrs. Chevlette who did the math one this this past semester every single one of her kids grew beyond their uh the rest of their peers in the eventually thankful workless work but I want to say thank you to them for Thank you guys. Uh, and just in case I didn't say them because I don't think I did. Um, uh, Miss Henry represents sixth grade math. Math represents eighth grade math. We've also got Jessica Leiday who's representing seventh grade math. Mer
058is eighth grade English. We've also got seventh grade English sixth grade English and I mentioned it's a Chevrolet. So they'll be getting their work. Thank you. [Applause] Where's your hat? So this month we are the elementary is going to recognize our kindergarters of our prek team that are there every single day. There are very there are many people that come in and out of prek special education. So they come in and out but this year we have kind of overhauled our prepaid program and uh for this. And the reason that we did that is that we really felt that we needed a prek classroom that was really focused on developmental needs. And so, um, we kind of restructured that last year and it has gone really, really well. And it's because of four people that
059are here tonight that we're going to recognize. So, first of all, um, our developmental teacher is The parent educator that is in that classroom is Sarah. Um, our regular prek teacher is All right. And our Just so you guys know too, our our prek on any throughout the week, we have 20 kids that that come in prek and then our developmental needs prek can vary. two to five at any time just based on their IE. So, and we have 11 already signed up for Right. Well, thank you to everybody and congratulations to our Blue Future Award winners. Um, if you are here in the audience with the Blue Future Award winner and you're free to leave unless you're dying to learn more about Chromebook leases and uh copier uh leases. So, uh but it this
060would be a good time for you to to take take off before you get sucked into the uh inner workings of the meeting. So, thank you and congratulations. All right. Um, next on the agenda is tell me something good. This is time where we take just as a board to see if we recognize something out in the school or in uh the the community with the students that uh that we want to make mention of. So, um, anybody want to lead us off? You could go. There you go. I was just going to say this tonight. Um, when we started the branding and marketing committee, one of our main goals was to showcase all the talents um, and successes that happen every day in Typton. And I think we've done a really good job of
061that in the last four plus years. and um just this tonight, all the kids that were were honored and acknowledged I think is really special. So, I'm glad that we we continue to do this every month. Awesome. Thank you, Andrew. I'll speak about it more next month um in Blue Future Awards, but if you haven't seen our middle school swim team, you have one more opportunity tomorrow night at 5:30 against Hamilton Heights. We have one girls relay team that has broken a record every time they've entered the pool. And they have placed first every time they've entered the pool. We have um a diver who has placed first every meet as well. They are being honored next. They are. They are. I already called dibs on it. Called dibs on. We can fight. I did
062want to thank the board. I I know this time last year we were talking a lot about preschool and um we really have a nice plan for preschool and it's been such a great year uh with our preschool and I just feel like we really got some things back on track and I just want to thank the board for taking the time because that was a very timeconsuming process but the rewards are far outweigh the time spent. So thank you for helping with that. Yeah, I think I saw in the newspaper where a group of students uh volunteered at the Encore Center um and helped out. I thought that was very uh positive and u I'm sure we're all they were all very grateful. Anyone else? I would call out um Mrs. Gonzalez and her
063honors physics class this week or last week um did a boat race built out of cardboard in the pool. Um and um she's planned I think we've approved and planned a trip to Kings Island to study physics. So we'll see how that goes. But uh at the end of the day just wanted to acknowledge uh Mrs. G for some really creative and um I don't know immersive type of uh experiences for uh for physics. So, I thought she did a great job and the kids had a blast. So, all right. All right. Well, thank you everybody for that. Uh, we'll move to comments from the community. Do we have anybody for the general session? Laura? All right. Actually, kind of I answered some of my questions I had about the CCHA piece on the agenda.
064Um, but I'm still going to take my three minutes of opportunity here to just reinforce what I talked about in the work session because one of the board's main function is to approve policies and an integral part of that is to get public input on the policy and we cannot get public input on those policies if we do not know the policies that you guys are going to vote on. So when I see batch one, two, and three of these policies. We have nothing to go by to give you input. And I think back to a couple meetings ago when we went over the survey results. And one of the big glaring things that came out of that as a result was that parents recognized how well we do recognizing sports and students and all
065of that. But their number one thing per that list was wanting more say about policing to input wanting to know what those policy changes were. Um, so I guess I'm just going to finish by saying this. I really hope you um take into account what what I talked about in the work session and what West Lafayette Community School Corporation is doing and that we share in doing that. Um, and if you when you get to the point where you decide this um or not um At least like at some point when you reach that decision, at least some feedback from one of you or the board president or one of my reps as to either why you don't want to do what they're doing or or hopefully pray to God that we do change our
066practice. Um so thank you Laura. Thank you. All right, that concludes our comments from the community. The next on the agenda is the uh approval of the consent agenda. Uh we have the approval of the minutes from the work session um and the regular session and the 1028 additional appropriation hearing from February 11th. Uh we have approval of claims, the payroll claims from February 14th and 25th. And then we have the accounts payable claims for all of March. uh so thus far 2025 um approval of the personnel report which I'll read at the conclusion of this um and then um approval to uh accept donations I don't we had none this uh this particular month uh in the packet so I will move to the um personnel report um we have maternity leave requests for
067Jessica Leiday and Ashley Roberts from a classified staff perspective we have the retirement of uh Corey Fernung after 21 years of service to Typton High School. Um Corey is retiring and uh we have accepted that resa or that retirement. We have a termination of uh Jill Fakes who was a special ed bus aid, the resignation of Chris Swank and Heather Goodnight from classified staff, and we have a transfer of Michelle Height from third shift custodian in the middle school to third shift custodian in the high school. Uh recommendations, we have Brandon Lake as a full-time substitute teacher for the corporation. Uh Ashley Cunningham is a third shift custodian for the elementary school, Mary Ankram for a physical education assistant and a lifeguard. Um and then Heather Goodnight for the third shift custodian at the Typton
068High School. On the ECA staff side, um, resignations, we have Kevin Mcdana as the girls varsity tennis coach, uh, Jesse McKenna as the assistant cheer coach for the middle school, and also Jesse McKenna for the sixth grade cheer coach in the middle school. Uh, Elizabeth, sixth grade cheer coach at the middle school, and Kelsey Mitchell, um, for the eighth grade girls basketball coach, and also the seventh grade volleyball coach of Kelsey Mitchell as well. Um, on the other side of that, the recommendations are Sam Phillips for the girls varsity track coach for the 2024 25 school year. We have Brandon Lake for the boys assistant track coach for the high school. Uh, Mattie Ripburgger for the girls varsity soccer coach for the high school. Uh, Levi Tragasser for the boys varsity soccer coach for the
069high school. And David Tragasser for the assistant soccer coach for the high school. uh Eli Bogard for the girls track head coach in the middle school and Adam Gillum for the girls varsity tennis coach for the high school for the 20 and 25 uh school year. So I would be looking for a motion and a second uh to approve the consent agenda and the personnel uh report. I move to approve the consent agenda. Second. I have a motion and a second. Any questions or comments? I just wanted to say I think we did have a couple of donations. Did we? But I mean just think through motorsports. Uh okay, we did. We had motorsports, bass anglers, um athletics through Coca-Cola, and then the Young Originals had some patron donations that uh go towards their Florida
070trip. So, sorry about that. Missed that. So, my bad. It's only my third month, so just lighten up every day. Um so, uh we have a motion and a second. Um all in favor of approving the consent agenda signify by saying I. I. Any opposed? All right. Consent agenda is approved. Next up is our superintendence report. Dr. Glaze. Uh not a very long superintendent report. Uh but just wanted to talk about a couple of things that we have uh happening here at um at the school. Uh one thing that's going to happen is we will have a a new pattern or a new sequence uh for our building as far as our the entrances that we have labeled. Uh this is mostly for a security purpose and uh currently we have letters. Uh we're moving
071to numbers. Um, this would be uh essentially if we would have any kind of a uh an emergency, we would be able to let law enforcement or uh fire uh know what entrance they would need to come in. So, we could say come in entrance 14 of which is now the uh main entrance for the high school there at the main office. And uh it just allows us to have a little bit better um grasp because it labels every single entrance uh to the building. Any way you can get into the building now has a some kind of a marker on it. Um so that we could be a lot more specific and um and just it's just really more so for safety uh versus everything else. Uh so uh this is the the map.
072Uh this would be the map that we would put out on our web page if they're looking to to come on uh to come on campus. Um hopefully uh locating the door they need to go to. Um there are actually two separate maps that have every single number listed and every single door listed on it. And uh there this was kind of big so we had to do it in two segments. So this is obviously the high school And then this is obviously uh the elementary middle. So um starting on Thursday, uh our friends from Who's Your Sign Guy are going to come in and label these new entrances. And uh so we should be up and ready uh by Friday with all of our new entrances. And uh we'll we'll probably send something out
073to our patrons and let them know that things have changed and uh also put the map out. So, that's uh one of the exciting things. It's not real uh super interesting, but it's definitely something that will make our building and campus safer. Would you go back to the first page? Sure. That that one? This one? Yeah. Uh what about the concession stands and the bus barn and all of that? We just because we don't we don't have them labeled um as as one of the entrances. These are just for the um it's not necessarily to to try to find locations on on the campus like for the outside buildings. It's really more so for the the internal the internal campus. But I mean that's something that we can add if we feel like that that's
074important. And what is entrance 23? Does that go in by the uh by the cafeteria entrance? Uh 23 is actually behind here. There are the garage doors. Oh, okay. Yeah, we probably need to fix that. But there are four garage doors. So, we have each one of those labeled. This will be shared out with uh police walk through. Yep. Yep. Yep. Other questions. Okay. We did have our audit and I appreciate those of you that were able to come in for that. Uh we're not allowed to disclose anything from the audit. I think that that um you know we were sworn to keep it quiet but um I I do feel like we had a very good audit and uh without divulging any uh facts or anything. So I was really pleased with it. I
075did want to take this opportunity to thank Brooke, Don, Holly, and Emma. Uh my gosh, those ladies were just running around like crazy uh answering the auditor's questions. And we had four auditors um here at at one time for several days. So everybody was hopping and uh I just really appreciate their hard work and uh it's always good to be done with an audit and uh so we will share the uh the information once it's finalized and sent to us. Uh but once again uh was really we were really pleased with the results. Uh just kind of upcoming agenda items. Uh looking at approval for bids uh for the roofing project. Uh we're obviously going to have property liability, cyber security, workers comp, uh insurance renewal next month. Um we will have a report from
076the wellness committee, uh curricular material updates, uh with Mr. Jorski, and uh we will begin the process of updating handbooks, uh particularly with our new uh policy citations and and various things like that. So it may be more like June versus May. Um, but uh that's kind of the upcoming agenda items and that's all I've got. Next on the agenda is our department reports. Inside your packet was the food service report, technology report and the assistance superintendence report. If we had any questions or or comments on that. Very good. Um, up next is the financial report. Brook's absent this evening. So, I will do my best um to to read this. Um but we ended up with uh February with cash balances in the education fund of $1 million 30,110.34. A portion of the balances
077related to curricular material funds transferred in at the end of the year that we did. Uh our operation fund but cash balance was 738,733 and our debt service uh remained at 791105. Uh and rainy day continues to be at 2 million $3,833. Our education fund revenue exceeded our expenses by $79,761. So we transferred 75,000 from the ed fund to the OP fund. And then the op funds expenses there uh they exceeded revenue by $251,82. So the operations fund as you all know by now has very limited ways of which to bring in revenue and our next tax draw will not arrive until mid to late June. So we'll be keeping a real close eye on that. Um any questions on the financials or any uh uh revenue reports or anything that was in your packet?
078All right. Uh, going to old business now. Uh, we'll deja vu all over again. But if you recall um the approval of this resolution that's in your packet, the 103 waiver, it's necessary to submit um to the IDOE to allow us to use three days for professional development in the 2526 school year. We did pass the resolution last month, but it had the wrong Indiana code citation in it. In your packet is the resolution with the correct citation. I just need a motion and a second to approve that again uh with the with the correct information. I move to approve the 10003 waiver part two. I second. All right. Motion a second. Any questions or comments on the waiver? Right. Uh all those in favor of uh Approving the uh 1003 waiver take two signify
079by saying I. I. Any opposed? Motion carries. Thank you. That is all for old business. Uh new business is we have the approval of the architectural design company called 40 4021 architecture. In your packet is a proposal from them to complete a roof schematic and design to assist our alterer with the bid documents we're going to need and the specs for the upcoming roof project the high school. Uh the scope of 4021 architecture will be in three phases. The first phase is the assessment. Second phase is implementation and then the third phase is the construction administration. Um and it was outlined a little more specifically in the proposal. Uh Indiana standards for design and construction require architectural uh drawings in order to access the required building permits and specifications for bids and they will assist
080RL Turner in evaluating these bids um and and making sure the right vendor is selected. So, um I would be looking for a motion and a second to approve um the uh architectural design company uh bid in the packet. I move to approve the architectural design company 4021. I have a motion and a second. Um, any questions on the bid packet? Um, have a motion and a second. All those in favor of uh approving uh this of approving an architectural design um bid, please signify by saying I. I. Any opposed? The motion carried. Um, we have the first reading of our CCHA board policy, uh, the administrative guidelines and forms in batches one, two, and three. In January, we started the transition to uh CCHA policy from Niola. We're going to review these batches um
081on first reading tonight and uh uh with approval of scheduled um approval is scheduled for April um next month. So, nothing to vote on here, but just a first reading and continue to read those policies and provide feedback. Uh last month uh the board gave permission to advertise fertilizer and spraying bids in the Typton Tribune and Cooko Tribune on February 19th and again on February 26, 2025. Bids were due to us Friday, February 28th. And we had two vendor bids for $17,967 and $14,87 for each growing season. Uh it's recommended the board approve list lawn care again as our vendor for fertilizer and spraying. I'd be looking for a motion and a second to approve uh lists and bid for fertilizer and spraying. I move to accept the bid from list lawn care for our
082fertilizer and spraying. I have a motion and a second. Any questions on the bid? All right. Uh all those in favor of approving list law care, please signify by saying I. I. Any opposed? All right. Motion carries. Um during our work session earlier, you heard a proposal from Steven to replace the iPads with external keyboards in grades 3 through eight with Chromebooks. This proposal is a is a cost savings measure uh meant to create a sustainable onetoone technology program for TIT community schools. Earlier this year, our high school transitioned to Chromebooks for MacBooks, which marks marked the first step um in a more fiscally responsible approach to our onetoone computing program. The advantages to Chromebook books at this grade level is um use of an actual laptop keyboard, uh cost and ease of repair, which
083most of these repairs can now be completed inhouse versus sending them out to Apple Care. Um and the rugged construction of the Chromebook. Uh we're asking for approval of a four-year lease option to spread out the overall cost of these devices. Uh the proposal and the lease terms are included in your packet. Look for a motion and a second to approve the Chromebook purchase of lease. Second. Motion and a second to approve the leases. Uh any questions? All right. All those in favor of approving the Chromebook purchase and please signify by saying I. I. Any opposed? The motion carries. Um, also during the work session, Stephen uh explained the current reality we have in in regards to the U fleet of copy machines I think it was referred to and our plan moving forward. So,
084in our packet is a 60-month le release proposal um from RICO and the agreement will reduce the number of copy machines in the district from 26 down to 14 and the only expense beyond the lease payments will be for copier paper. So, I'd like a ask for an approval of the uh RICO copy machine lease. I move to approve the RICO copy machine lease. I have a motion and a second to approve the copy lease. Uh all those in favor by uh could you signify by saying I any opposed? Motion is approved. Um next on our agenda is granting the superintendent authorization to sign the alternative and private residential placement contract. We have two students in residential placements that qualify for an SC grant from uh IDOE. The PC grant provides financial support to the
085school so the district is not financially burdened with the full cost of that placement. Uh the superintendent needs authorization from us to sign contracts for the FCC grant funding on behalf of the board. Uh the resolution is in your uh packet and it does provide this authorization looking for approval to grant the superintendent that authorization. I move to grant the superintendent authorization to sign alternative and private residential placement contracts. Second. I have a motion and a second to grant the authorization. Um, any questions on that? Then all those in favor of granting the superintendent the authorization to sign the contracts, please signify by saying I. I. Any opposed? The motion carries. Um, other matters to come before the board, we have the advisory committees. I believe we have the professional learning experiences committee. Is that
086right? And um the uh the communications committee would be the next one. Okay. And uh we're going to do that probably after the we get back from spring break. Okay. So I'll send out an email to all of you saying, "Hey, what works?" So, perfect. All right. Then an upcoming schedule of events as Dr. Bla talked about earlier. March 12th and 13 we're going to have this ex exterior door numbering. Uh March 15th is the end of the third grading period. Um March 17th we'll be having an executive session as a board. March 20th is school makeup day. It's a a flex day if needed. And March 21st through 30th is the long awaited spring break. And March 31st being another snow makeup day, a flex day if needed. And our next meeting in these
087chambers will be uh April 8th for our April board meeting. Um that concludes our agenda. We look for a motion and a second to adjurnn. Second. Have a motion and a second to adjurnn. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. Any opposed? We are adjourned. Thank you. Thank you all.